Reflection positive stochastic processes indexed by Lie groups

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Abstract: Reflection positivity originates from one of the Osterwalder-Schrader axioms for constructive quantum field theory. It serves as a bridge between euclidean and relativistic quantum field theory. In mathematics, more specifically, in representation theory, it is related to the Cartan duality of symmetric Lie groups (Lie groups with an involution) and results in a transformation of a unitary representation of a symmetric Lie group to a unitary representation of its Cartan dual. In this article we continue our investigation of representation theoretic aspects of reflection positivity by discussing reflection positive Markov processes indexed by Lie groups, measures on path spaces, and invariant gaussian measures in spaces of distribution vectors. This provides new constructions of reflection positive unitary representations.


The so-called reflection positivity is involved in constructive quantum field theory, and refers to reflection positive Hilbert space. In the present paper, one proposes an approach to a unifying framework by replacing the real line, observed as continuous time, by an arbitrary Lie group \(G\), on the one hand, and the positive axes by a semi-group contained in \(G\) on the other hand. Here one continues in the study of the representation theoretic features of reflection positivity. One discusses stochastic processes indexed by a symmetric Lie group, one builds up a bridge between Markov processes and the reconstruction process, and to conclude, one discusses the second quantization functor. And one discusses how one can derive Gaussian probability spaces of Gaussian measures from an orthogonal reflection positive representation.



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